According to a new report coming from South Korea, LG is apparently working on its own high-end SoC octa-core design that will be based on ARM's recently unveiled Cortex-A72 cores paired up with Mali GPU.

LG already had its own NUCLUN SoC, which had cost the company around US $200 million, and showed up late in a single device, The G3 Screen, that was available only in South Korea.

Unlike the NUCLUN SoC, which was based on four ARM Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 cores in big.LITTLE configuration, the new rumored LG octa-core SOC, according to the report from South Korean DT.co.kr site, will be based on four Cortex-A72 cores paired up with four Cortex-A53 cores in the same big.LITTLE configuration. The chip will be paired up with Mali GPU, most likely the recently unveiled Mali-T880 one.

While the report suggest that the new LG SoC will be made on 20nm manufacturing process, it does not make a lot of sense since ARM has fitted the Cortex-A72 design for 16nm FinFET manufacturing process (TSMC) and which should be up to three times faster compared to the 28nm Cortex-A15 design.

The same report also suggest that LG is already six months behind schedule which is not a good thing but with Samsung pushing for its own SoC, Qualcomm might be left without yet another customer next year, at least if all goes well with this new LG high-end SoC.



Source: Phonearena.com.